Six diaries of the college student found dead in a Gulshan flat on Monday contain crucial evidence supporting the allegations against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir of abetting suicide, police said.

The government faces a challenge in reaching the target population in need of financial assistance amid the Covid pandemic in the absence of a comprehensive database of poor people.

India is witnessing a devastating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

China and five South Asian countries, including Bangladesh, have opposed the idea of vaccine nationalism while calling for distribution of vaccine under the principles of equity and justice.

Muhammad Asaduzzaman, a doctor treating Covid-19 patients, has nightmares that people are gasping for air and pleading to be saved.

The government approved in principle the local coproduction of Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccines involving Bangladeshi drug makers.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, is physically stable and her lungs are in good condition, said her doctor.

Detectives claimed to have identified at least 313 donors, who used to finance Hefajat-e Islam that carried out violence across the country late last month protesting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh.

As the government sticks to austerity in face of the pandemic, it has asked all ministries, except health and agriculture, not to issue work order for any physical works during the remainder of the current fiscal year.

A day after a college student’s body was recovered from a rented Gulshan flat, her family yesterday sued Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir over abetting her death by suicide.

Prominent Industrialist and Chairman of Phoenix Group Deen Mohammad passed away at a hospital in Dhaka early yesterday. He was 83.

In a desperate attempt to keep the mass vaccination campaign on track, the government yesterday gave emergency use authorisation to Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.

Over the last couple of weeks, Abdus Sobhan, a day labourer in the capital, saw his earnings drop to almost nothing.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the city last night.

After Dragon Sweaters’ Dhaka factory closed due to the pandemic last year, former garments worker Abdul Kuddus had to sign away rights to half of his termination benefits.

Ten months ago, a government-commissioned research report on the fallout of the pandemic-induced shutdown divulged some grim projections: over 1.64 crore people in the country would become new poor in the second quarter of 2020.

Amid the Boro harvest, the government has decided to buy 6.5 lakh tonnes of paddy and 11.5 lakh tonnes of rice from the local market to increase its food stock.

The government is seriously considering importing Covid-19 vaccines from Sinopharm of China and Russia’s Sputnik V in order to ensure continuation of the ongoing mass vaccination programme.

With Hefajat-e-Islam’s central committee dissolved, followers of its late amir Shah Ahmad Shafi now eye top posts in the new committee.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought a stronger role of the developed world and the development partners in attaining quick recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.